Trinity Western law school future in doubt after B.C. Law Society rejection

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Law society members voted 74 per cent to overturn earlier approval of faith-based law school

CBC News Posted: Oct 31, 2014 8:51 AM PT
Last Updated: Oct 31, 2014 2:49 PM PT

The president of Trinity Western University says he is uncertain if the new law school will open as scheduled in 2016 following the recent vote by the B.C. Law Society members to reject the faith-based institution.

TWU president Bob Kuhn expressed his frustration with the recent vote as he left a ratification meeting at the law society on Friday morning.

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More than 8,000 of the society's 13,530 members voted earlier this month in a special referendum to overturn the board's decision earlier this year to accredit the faith-based law school.

Critics oppose the new law school's accreditation because Trinity Western students must sign a Christian covenant that states sexual relations are to be confined within the bounds of a marriage between a man and a woman.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/trinity-western-law-school-future-in-doubt-after-b-c-law-society-rejection-1.2819684

[CanonRay]

1. We have enough lawyers

train somebody who can build a damn bridge.

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2. Be that as it may, it's good to have lawyers with the skills to stop this.

[CanonRay]

3. More of them wind up working for Monsano

or the Republican Governors Association. Pays more.

"First let's kill all the lawyers"
William Shakespeare

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4. Why, may not that be the skull of a lawyer?

Where be his quiddities now, his quillities, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? Why does he suffer this mad knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery? Hum! This fellow might be in's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt? Will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The very conveyances of his lands will scarcely lie in this box; and must the inheritor himself have no more, ha? - (Hamlet, 5.1.97), Hamlet to Horatio

But then there's this:

“Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.” ― Scott Adams

And this:

Engineers tend to view themselves as much less liberal and slightly more conservative than the general public, according to a recent survey of over 1,200 readers of MACHINE DESIGN and Electronic Design magazines. The same survey also found that engineers say they are more likely to be Republican (42.1%) or Independent (33.7%) voters, as opposed to Democrats (14.5%). And although over a third of the engineers think Republicans represent the best interests of the engineering community better than Democrats, a majority of engineers (48.1%) believe neither party is really on the side of engineers.

http://machinedesign.com/news/politics-engineers

A broad brush works best on a big head.